National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for March 22, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending March 19, 2017
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly, Morrow, $15.99, 9780062363602
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Now a major motion picture.		 1/15
2. The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman, Norton, $15.95, 9780393354256
The true story of zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who hid hundreds of Polish Jews during WWII, based on Antonina's diaries. Soon to be a major motion picture.		 2/6
3. You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16.00, 9780762447695
Sincero helps you understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to start living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.		 4/87
4. Originals
Adam M. Grant, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143128854
Grant examines how people can champion new ideas--and how leaders can encourage originality in their organizations.		 5/6
5. Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson, Flatiron, $15.99, 9781250077028
A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Lawson does best.		 3/6
6. Lab Girl
Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16.00, 9781101873724
This illuminating debut memoir by acclaimed scientist Jahren is also a moving portrait of a longtime friendship and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world.		 7/3
7. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761
The award-winning author of Americanah offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.		 6/67
8. The Immortal Irishman
Timothy Egan, Mariner, $15.99, 9780544944831
National Book Award-winner Egan tells the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishmen in 19th-century America, Thomas Meagher.		 10/2
9. Why We March
Artisan Publishers, $14.95, 9781579658281
This collection features 500 of the most eloquent, provocative, uplifting, clever, and creative signs from across the U.S. and around the world on the day of the Women's March, January 21, 2017.		 8/3
10. Evicted
Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17.00, 9780553447453
Desmond transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem.		 9/3
11. Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg, Random House, $17.00, 9780812983593
Duhigg explores the science of productivity and why managing how you think--rather than what you think--can transform your life.		 15/2
12. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
Harvard Business School Press, $24.95, 9781633690196
Ten articles from the Harvard Business Review archive selected to help you boost your emotional skills--and your professional success.		 13/40
13. I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin, Raoul Peck, Vintage, $15.00, 9780525434696
To compose his stunning documentary film, acclaimed filmmaker Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.		 /4
14. Why I March
Abrams Image, $14.95, 9781419728853
Images from the Women's Marches that took place around the world on January 21, 2017.		 11/4
15. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies- Debut
Jared Diamond, Norton, $18.95, 9780393354324
Pulitzer Prize-winner Diamond chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.		 /1

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